Juicy Detailing Candy White Seat Leon FR

Stuart recently purchased a Candy White Seat Leon FR 59 plate which is a typical example of a a vehicle that has been washed using either automatic car washes or the cheap roadside services (yeah you know the ones I mean!). As he uses his car as a daily ride and time was limited Stuart was looking to enhance the look of the paintwork but aware that within the space of a day it would be quite difficult to achieve 90 to 95% correction of the paintwork.

Another slight difference to what we usually do is that Stuart wanted to help with the Enhancement and learn how to machine polish. Therefore prior to me working on the car he did the following:

The car was taken inside our new detailing bay and paintwork evaluated and depths taken. Now generally white is quite a hard colour to see imperfections on however due to the state of this is was quite easy, again just a couple of photos as virtually the whole car was the same.

Nice of example of marring from the clay due to poor use of clay lube and rushing....ok I'll let him off as it was he was a "virgin clayer"....

Next stage after the evaluation was to tape up all the edges using Scotch High Performance Masking Tape. This is to protect the panel edges as the paint depth is thinner in these area and trims from being marked by polish. This picture is quite a good example of how paintwork can look shiny but up close have a vast amount of imperfections...so hence the importance of the lights we use.

As per usual a few test sections were done and boy was this paint rock hard as you expect from the VAG cars, ie. the likes of Seat, VW, BMW and Audi generally always have hard paint therefore you need to have a slightly more aggressive combination of polish and pads....The weapon of choice was my Festool Rotary and we settled on using Scholl S17+ polish and a Scholl white/black spider polishing pad.

A keen young detailer popped in to see how we were doing and help his dad out :)

50/50 shot of the bonnet (right side corrected)

Ok so its not perfect, but we are not looking to correct all imperfections due to the time limitations we have available. Only the deeper scratches remain

So starting to move around the car...this just shows the difference from bonnet to side wing

Passenger side (right corrected)

Nearly there - this was around 1 in the morning

All the correction has been completed, tape removed and wiped down to remove any remaining oils and fillers. We decided to call it a night and come back in early Sunday morning to apply the final products.